The Orange County chapter of Americans United for Separation of Church and State October 11th event will present a video of a webinar from Americans United with Barry Lynn and Ayesha Khan discussing two recent Supreme Court Decisions: Greece v. Galloway and Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores.

Last weekend, I joined my colleagues at the Values Voters Summit. It’s possible to predict much of what we’ll hear at this event. The Religious Right, populated with biblical literalists, doesn’t often update its script. Religious liberty (theirs, not ours) is under attack. Children are being corrupted by the world. And the engine for that corruption is often identified as the so-called “gay agenda.”Read more

The Religious Right’s annual “Values Voter Summit” (VVS) took place over the weekend in Washington, D.C. As usual, it was a mix of homophobia, Islamophobia, religious revivalism and bashing of President Barack Obama disguised as a policy conference. Read more

The Religious Right’s annual “Values Voter Summit” (VVS) takes place this weekend. Americans United staffers Simon Brown, Sarah Jones and I will be there. (Barry Lynn usually pops in too, in case anyone wants to take a selfie with him.)

If you are a religious person, please pray for us. If you’re not religious, please forward some recommendations for stress-relief strategies – favorite liquors, ice-cream brands, yoga positions, etc. – as I suspect we’ll all need some way to unwind when this thing is over. Read more

This weekend provides an opportunity to visit two very different universes: the reality-based one most of us live in and a bizarre alternate one populated by the major figures of America’s Religious Right. Read more

Dr. Poyo is professor of history and department chair at St. Mary’s University. He is the author of three books on the Cuban exile experience of the 19th and 20th centuries and the editor of four books on U.S. Latino Catholicism and Mexican American history and literature. Read more

The Values Voters Summit is upon us again, which means we’re in for another round of lectures on the superiority of “traditional” marriage. Given the successes enjoyed by marriage equality advocates this year, you could be forgiven for thinking that Religious Right leaders would at least acknowledge that the tide is against them. Read more

Yesterday conservative commentator Dinesh D’Souza was sentenced to five years of probation and a term of community service for violating federal campaign laws. He must also pay a fine of $30,000. Read more